[42972] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GPS SA and Network Timing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Wed Sep 26 21:42:01 2001
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 21:39:37 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L-022.0109260956060.5008-100000@unix1.andrew.cmu.edu> from "Ian A Finlay" at Sep 26, 2001 10:03:02 AM
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Unnamed Administration sources reported that Ian A Finlay said:
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> I recently purchased a GPS. The manual indicates that SA has no effect on
> timing. SA only affects positioning.
Err...
GPS is nothing but timing.
I'm not quite sure how you'd change "position" without timing.
Position is a function of time measurments...and a bunchamath.
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